TIL thread. Pros needed! Newbies need it.

[Brendan Hubster]

I love TIL posts. I think they've a great way to just learn a ton of little facts in quick succession. For those that don't know TIL stands for 'today I learned'. Feel free to post one or more things you learned today, try to keep it SOMEWHAT short if you're posting a TIL, if you're correcting someone or asking a question in reference to what someone said feel free to lengthen it up. Newbies might learn more things on a daily basis but for those pros here I'm sure if you learn something at this point in your careers..... It's likely pretty important. 

I'll start!

TIL - When trying to obtain records for infractions/code violations for different cities in my area......... every place is different. I've been starting with town/city hall and some of them have them, if not I generally get transferred once or twice within town hall then transferred/referred a number one or two more times before getting to the proper authorities. I've been lucky so far in that most of them just want me to come down and drop off a Freedom of Info form and then they'll just hold them for me once they're printed out so I can make one trip around my county to drop off all the forms then one more once they're all ready to pick them all up, bit more difficult than I think it has to be though (Damn you Rebogateway for not having the info available for CT).